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Iran is likely to be a central issue in United States President Joe Biden’s mid-July Middle East tour – with differing expectations as to what he may achieve.

Iran’s deputy foreign minister has said Israelis cannot even dream of attacking Iran despite numerous attacks, assassinations and infiltrations by Israel in recent months.

The Jerusalem Post Monday cited an annual security report by Hamburg highlighting September’s arrest of a man for exporting equipment to Iran without licenses.

Foreign ministers of Iran, Azerbaijan, and Turkey are to meet in Tehran soon in a regional format, Iran’s foreign minister announced on Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid will press French President Emmanuel Macron to be tough on the Iranian nuclear negotiations, during his trip to Paris Tuesday.

Numerous people and groups from around the world have warned about a prisoner exchange treaty between Belgium and Iran, pending approval at the Belgian parliament.

As the Belgian parliament takes up a law allowing exchange of convicts, Iran International has learned that Tehran has jailed a Belgian aid worker since February.

Amid general frustration with the performance of President Ebrahim Raisi’s performance, his newspaper claims most Iranians are hopeful about the future.

The French foreign ministry has warned French citizens and dual nationals against traveling to Iran due to the risk of arbitrary detention and unfair trial.

An Iranian airplane, operated by Pouya Air, was not allowed to land at Erbil International Airport on Monday, the airport’s director told to Iran International.

Sandstorms and dangerously polluted air led to the closure of schools and some government offices in Iran’s capital Tehran as well as several other cities across the country on Monday.

Iran receives 80 percent of its oil export proceeds in cash, and only 20 percent is in barter trade, Fars news agency affiliated with the IRGC said Monday.

A member of Tehran’s city council says the municipality had to sell a building and a parcel of land worth 16 trillion rials (about $55 million) to pay the salaries of its employees in June.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed Sunday the latest developments surrounding the Iran nuclear talks with his Qatari counterpart Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani.

Iranian economist Mohsen Renani says another revolution is unlikely in Iran, however, there is a high potential for riots and unrest because of economic crisis.

Iran’s nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri-Kani has tried to dispel criticism of his trip to Moscow following a failed talks with the US in Qatar, saying Russia has no Covid restrictions.

The deputy of Iran’s Supreme Leader’s representative in the Revolutionary Guard has said the military institution should train “forces who can have their finger on the trigger without fear."

As Iran’s Health Ministry announced that the number of people hospitalized due to Covid-19 complications have tripled, new variants are about to sweep across the country.

The head of Iran’s Educational Evaluation Organization has denied corruption in holding the standardized university entrance exams, but many remain unconvinced.

Following controversy over the possible repatriation of an Iranian convicted of terrorism the Belgian Ministry of Justice says a bill on exchange of convicts is not intended for a specific person contrary to what critics say.

Iran will earn $36 billion from oil exports in 2022 with shipments mostly to China, Fars news website affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard reported Sunday.